Sigrid Rausing

Articles by Sigrid Rausing

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How porn blunts moral boundaries

  • 11 November 2010
  • 31 comments

The popular attitude to pornography is that it’s fine as long as the kids don’t see it. But this misses the point ― the direct link between adult exposure to porn and sexual abuse of children.

Children of Abraham v sons of Ibrahim

  • 12 July 2010
  • 23 comments

On a visit to human rights groups in Israel and the West Bank, Sigrid Rausing senses a growing tension between the secular right and the liberal left, and struggles to accept the disparities between Jewish, Palestinian and refugee lives.

Uganda is sanctioning gay genocide

  • 19 November 2009
  • 1 comment

Sexual violence is everywhere in Uganda. A new bill punishing homosexuals is part of that culture

The death of a dream

  • 25 June 2009

Andrew Brown has won the Orwell Prize for Fishing in Utopia, a memoir of life in Sweden. Here he talks to his friend Sigrid Rausing, herself a Swede, about what attracted him to Scandinavia and why he didn’t find the Jerusalem by the Baltic he had been expecting

A garden of smoking pollen

  • 11 June 2009

After falling from her horse, the author suffered concussion – and suddenly the world became a place of strange wonder

The code for conspiracy

  • 23 April 2009

There will never be peace in the Middle East until Palestinians and other Arabs confront the reality of anti-Semitism

A dangerous paranoia

  • 26 March 2009
  • 1 comment

The Home Office is attempting to sell the concept of ID cards to the public by claiming they are an essential weapon for controlling immigration

A country with no memory

  • 05 February 2009
  • 2 comments

As an anthropologist working in Russia in the 1990s, I believed a culture of memorials would emerge to mark the Soviet past. How wrong I was

Closing Guantanamo won't be enough

  • 15 January 2009
  • 1 comment

Obama and human rights

Grass-roots banking

  • 16 October 2008

While Wall Street was in meltdown, Sigrid Rausing found an alternative model of lending thriving in Queens, New York

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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